Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 04, 2011
October 03, 2011
October 05, 2011
Transcript:
Mrs. Olsen: What is wrong with you kids? None of you carried the 3. Boy: It's like your morning drive, Mrs. Olsen. If everybody is offending you with a single digit, maybe it's you. I've never enjoyed long division this much. Frazz: I've never had this much fun hearing about driving.
The sad part is, with education being what it is, no one remembers how to do long division anymore. I was in high school in ‘93 and didn’t have a calculator in one math class. So out came some scrap paper and I quickly jotted down a long division equation to do my work. When I looked up, the 6 kids sitting around me were all staring at me oddly. One leaned over and asked what I was doing, so I told him.
“Where’d you learn to do that?” is what he asked me. (This was a Grade 11 Math class.)
You have no idea how difficult it was to keep from beating my head on my desk in frustration.